“I want conversation, I want collective intelligence, but I also want sound journalism”
Παρασκευή 6 Μαρτίου 2009
ΠΟΛΙΤΕΣ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΟΓΡΑΦΟΙ: ΣΥΝΟΜΙΛΙΑ αλλά και ΣΩΣΤΗ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ
Civic & Citizen Journalism Interest Group:
TWITTER και Πολίτες Δημοσιογράφοι
Top 10 Reasons Why Citizen Journalists Should Use Twitter
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| Where’s YOUR posse? |
| Credit: Kevin Zollman, via Flickr (CC license). Source link:http://www.flickr.com/photos/36144637@N00/159627088/. |
1. Posse power. Twitter allows you to develop your own personal “posse” - people who are interested in what you’re doing. If you cultivate a quality posse, it can help jumpstart your citizen journalism. Your posse can send you relevant leads, reports, observations, feedback, and more. They can answer questions, provide support and encouragement, and help out if asked. They can also help spread the word about your projects. Think of your Twitter posse as an important extension or subset of the community you’re trying to serve with your citizen journalism.
2. Speed. Whether you’re looking to gather information or share it, you’ll get faster results on Twitter than almost any other kind of online media. Also, once you find a good collection of people to follow on Twitter, chances are you’ll hear about breaking news through them first.
3. Efficiency. When you’re limited to 140 characters at a time, brevity and clarity rule. If you choose to follow interesting people who use Twitter well, you’ll receive a steady stream of good information that you can scan and use quickly.
4. Simplicity. Most citizen journalists are not techies. Twitter is simpler to use than almost any other online communication tool. This makes it appealing to a broad range of people (not just geeks), which leads to the next point.
5. It goes where you are. Twitter works well on mobile phones. Even if you don’t have a phone that can browse the Web, you can participate by just sending and receiving text messages. So if you’re on the spot when news breaks, you can publish live coverage right from your cell phone.
6. People you know (or want to know) are probably there. According to recent research from Compete.com, Twitter currently attracts about 1.2 million unique users per month - and a quarter of these are “heavy users” who post multiple times daily. So chances are good that whatever community you wish to connect with, at least some of them are using Twitter.
7. Your community will expect to find you there. Since Twitter has become so popular, more and more people expect others to be there. It’s getting to be like e-mail - if you don’t have an e-mail address these days, it seems odd. Expect the same to happen with Twitter.
8. It’s under your control. When and how you get Twitter messages is entirely up to how you configure your account and which extra Twitter tools you use (if any). If you don’t want Twitter to interrupt you, it won’t.
9. It plays nice with others. Since Twitter allows access to the computer coding that underlies it, Web developers have created lots of great third-party services that provide useful extra features - like TwitterLocal (which finds Twitter users in or near a geographic location).
10. It’s free. Well, almost everything is free on the Web. But with Twitter, that’s just icing on the cake.
http://www.kcnn.org/modules/why_citizen_journalists_should_use_twitter/
TWITTER και Πολίτες Δημοσιογράφοι
Top 10 Reasons Why Citizen Journalists Should Use Twitter
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| Where’s YOUR posse? |
| Credit: Kevin Zollman, via Flickr (CC license). Source link:http://www.flickr.com/photos/36144637@N00/159627088/. |
1. Posse power. Twitter allows you to develop your own personal “posse” - people who are interested in what you’re doing. If you cultivate a quality posse, it can help jumpstart your citizen journalism. Your posse can send you relevant leads, reports, observations, feedback, and more. They can answer questions, provide support and encouragement, and help out if asked. They can also help spread the word about your projects. Think of your Twitter posse as an important extension or subset of the community you’re trying to serve with your citizen journalism.
2. Speed. Whether you’re looking to gather information or share it, you’ll get faster results on Twitter than almost any other kind of online media. Also, once you find a good collection of people to follow on Twitter, chances are you’ll hear about breaking news through them first.
3. Efficiency. When you’re limited to 140 characters at a time, brevity and clarity rule. If you choose to follow interesting people who use Twitter well, you’ll receive a steady stream of good information that you can scan and use quickly.
4. Simplicity. Most citizen journalists are not techies. Twitter is simpler to use than almost any other online communication tool. This makes it appealing to a broad range of people (not just geeks), which leads to the next point.
5. It goes where you are. Twitter works well on mobile phones. Even if you don’t have a phone that can browse the Web, you can participate by just sending and receiving text messages. So if you’re on the spot when news breaks, you can publish live coverage right from your cell phone.
6. People you know (or want to know) are probably there. According to recent research from Compete.com, Twitter currently attracts about 1.2 million unique users per month - and a quarter of these are “heavy users” who post multiple times daily. So chances are good that whatever community you wish to connect with, at least some of them are using Twitter.
7. Your community will expect to find you there. Since Twitter has become so popular, more and more people expect others to be there. It’s getting to be like e-mail - if you don’t have an e-mail address these days, it seems odd. Expect the same to happen with Twitter.
8. It’s under your control. When and how you get Twitter messages is entirely up to how you configure your account and which extra Twitter tools you use (if any). If you don’t want Twitter to interrupt you, it won’t.
9. It plays nice with others. Since Twitter allows access to the computer coding that underlies it, Web developers have created lots of great third-party services that provide useful extra features - like TwitterLocal (which finds Twitter users in or near a geographic location).
10. It’s free. Well, almost everything is free on the Web. But with Twitter, that’s just icing on the cake.
http://www.kcnn.org/modules/why_citizen_journalists_should_use_twitter/
Τι είναι "on-line journalism" ;
http://onlinejournalismblog.com
What?
The Online Journalism Blog publishes comment and analysis on developments in online journalism and
and all things internet.
TWITTER άμεσο ρεπορταζ in real time
last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai and the water landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in New York.
Both times, people on the scene began Twittering what they were seeing and hearing, and Twitter's search engine became one of the first places on the Web to carry the news. Indeed, the first picture of Flight 1549 in the water came via Twitter:
How often does anyone need "real time" information on the Web? Yes, in the first few minutes after a plane has landed in the Hudson, Twitter might be the best place to find news.
But its advantage is short-lived. By the time TV helicopters begin circling overhead, Twitter becomes decidedly slower and noisier than other media—now you're much better off going to CNN, where, in addition to a live picture, you'll find comments from authorities, structured interviews with eyewitnesses, and other old-fashioned journalistic information.
If you were visiting Boston and looking for a good place to grab a bite near Harvard, you might be better off asking your Twitter network to recommend a place than looking for something on the Web. Indeed, people do this all the time on Twitter. But compared with everything we look for online, these personalized, just-in-time searches are in the minority.
BLEG Λύση για εφημερίδα που κλείνει;
Bleg
A blog where one asks for donations; a cross between blog and beg.
A blog where one asks for donations; a cross between blog and beg.
A movement is stirring to keep the Seattle Post Intelligencer going.
According to a P-I employee website, journalists plan to keep an online version of their paper going for at least a couple of months if the paper stops publishing, which could happen mid-March.
The goal is to get subscribers and philanthropists to fund the online version.
"In the short run, the hope really lies with grant makers, foundations, and individuals who have a large sum of money at their disposal and want to invest it in their community to support journalism that goes two, three, or four layers deep," said Reporter Daniel Lathrop.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/03/journalism-20-the-pleg.html
ΠΩΣ ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΕΙΣ ΤΟ TWITTER ;
Many people have observed the difficulty of explaining what Twitter “is” until the person requesting the explanation tries it out.
Some “must have” parts to the story:
1. The who what when and why of deciding to join Twitter in May of 2008. (Jeff Jarvis pestered me into it.)
2. My custom-built description of what Twitter “is” and where it came from. Here I note that it’s notoriously difficult to explain to the non-user, but give it a go anyway.
3. Who I follow and why, how I picked them, how I add them now. What it’s like to read the inflow from Twitter.
4. What my Twitter posts consist of, the different types I return to, why I write them that way, and how I go about adding value.
5. The whole 140 characters thing and how that constraint creates the genre.
6. What a Twitter “feed” is, where its value lies, and how it compares to a traditional blog.
7. The connection between micro-blogging and the kind of blogging I’ve been doing at PressThink since 2003, at the Huffington Post since 2005 and IdeaLab since 2007.
8. Some terrible things about Twitter for a writer: can’t edit it, the archiving sucks, can’t keep up with follower growth and “hand add” easily.
9. And then, the thing I need your help with: what do I actually use Twitter for?.
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2009/01/04/chronicle_hlp.html#comments
ΔΗΜΟΣΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ
A Most Useful Definition of Citizen Journalism
When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in their possession to inform one another, that’s citizen journalism.
Dan Gilmore
ΠΩΣ ΤΑ WEB 2.0 ΕΡΓΑΛΕΙΑ ΟΔΗΓΟΥΝ ΣΕ "ΕΙΔΗΣΕΙΣ";
Can we take good ideas like... distributed knowledge, social networks, collaborative editing, the wisdom of crowds, citizen journalism, pro-am reporting... and put them to work to break news?
That means asking:
- What kinds of stories can be usefully investigated using open source and collaborative methods?
- Which user communties are good bets to be interested enough to make it happen?
- What will it take to start running more trials that could yield compelling and publishable work?
- What needs to be invented for this kind of journalism to flourish?
- What tools already exist, and how can we adapt them?
- How relevant to open source journalism are previous tech chapters like open source software?
- Which questions already have answers in earlier attempts to do this kind of journalism (Wikinews, Oh My News)?
- If we hired you to prove that, properly done, readers-know-more-than-I-do journalism can work, how would you propose to do it?
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2006/06/22/blgrc_iv_p.html
ΓΝΩΣΤΟΙ ΠΙΟ ΠΡΙΝ ΩΣ "ΑΚΡΟΑΤΗΡΙΟ"
The people formerly known as the audience are those who were on the receiving end of a media system that ran one way, in a broadcasting pattern, with high entry fees and a few firms competing to speak very loudly while the rest of the population listened in isolation from one another— and who today are not in a situation like that at all.
- Once they were your printing presses; now that humble device, the blog, has given the press to us. That’s why blogs have been called little First Amendment machines. They extend freedom of the press to more actors.
- Once it was your radio station, broadcasting on your frequency. Now that brilliant invention, podcasting, gives radio to us. And we have found more uses for it than you did.
- Shooting, editing and distributing video once belonged to you, Big Media. Only you could afford to reach a TV audience built in your own image. Now video is coming into the user’s hands, and audience-building by former members of the audience is alive and well on the Web.
- You were once (exclusively) the editors of the news, choosing what ran on the front page. Now we can edit the news, and our choices send items to our own front pages.
- A highly centralized media system had connected people “up” to big social agencies and centers of power but not “across” to each other. Now the horizontal flow, citizen-to-citizen, is as real and consequential as the vertical one.
The “former audience” is Dan Gillmor’s term for us. (He’s one of our discoverers and champions.) It refers to the owners and operators of tools that were one exclusively used by media people to capture and hold their attention.
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2006/06/27/ppl_frmr_p.html
ΕΡΓΑΛΕΙΑ ΣΥΝΟΜΙΛΙΑΣ WEB 2.0
Journalism as Conversation
We don’t know what the impact will be of this flood of free, ubiquitous, easy-to-use new digital communication, content creation, and publishing tools that relate to journalism.
“What tools?” we might ask. Well, the list changes so quickly that it will require updating in the time between when I write this article and when it is published. But here are a few examples:
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Blogging services, such as Google’s Blogger and Window’s Live Spaces and sharing, linking and tracking tools such as Technorati
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Microblogs, such as Twitter
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Video blogs, such as YouTube, Kyte.tv and 12seconds.tv, phreadz.com
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Mobile blogs, such as qik, moblog
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Social media sites including Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Flickr, Picasa
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Tagging and sharing sites such as del.icio.us, Digg, last.fm.
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Blog and Web site ads and promotion services, such as Google AdSense
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100670
BLOGS AND TWITTER HELP NEWS ORGS
For several years now, journalists have taken positive steps into the digital age by adding blogs and multimedia to their craft while increasing interactivity and immediacy. Simultaneously, news organizations have shed jobs, and their stocks have taken a pounding on Wall Street.
So why isn’t this strategy working? Because journalism’s brand is broken.
News organizations struggle not only with public perception of journalism but also with brand value in their local community. As I travel and talk with news professionals looking for ways to add Web 2.0 elements—comments, forums and user-generated content—to their online operations, I’m no longer surprised to hear an editor or reporter say, “Readers won’t do that on a news site.”
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So why isn’t this strategy working? Because journalism’s brand is broken.
News organizations struggle not only with public perception of journalism but also with brand value in their local community. As I travel and talk with news professionals looking for ways to add Web 2.0 elements—comments, forums and user-generated content—to their online operations, I’m no longer surprised to hear an editor or reporter say, “Readers won’t do that on a news site.”
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Building targeted communities of discourse with a layer of journalism on top can help. The Bakersfield Californian, for example, has been a leader in creating and cultivating such communities with projects like Bakotopia. And the beat blogging movement started by Jay Rosen’s NewAssignment.net is about doing this kind of journalism by convening a community of discourse in the form of an online social network.
To maximize a news organization’s social capital and marketability, its journalism today must be transparent, authentic and collaborative. This is why blogs and Twitter work for news organizations. Neither will replace traditional journalism, and that shouldn’t be the objective. These new digital tools bring journalists closer to readers and readers closer to journalism by removing barriers to a more networked conversation.
They help journalists avoid sounding “hollow, flat, literally unhuman” as Cluetrain warned against. And they build influence for the journalists, which Philip Meyer argued in “The Vanishing Newspaper” leads to economic success.
To maximize a news organization’s social capital and marketability, its journalism today must be transparent, authentic and collaborative. This is why blogs and Twitter work for news organizations. Neither will replace traditional journalism, and that shouldn’t be the objective. These new digital tools bring journalists closer to readers and readers closer to journalism by removing barriers to a more networked conversation.
They help journalists avoid sounding “hollow, flat, literally unhuman” as Cluetrain warned against. And they build influence for the journalists, which Philip Meyer argued in “The Vanishing Newspaper” leads to economic success.
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100689
ΤΕΛΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ;
The End of Journalism as Usual
‘To maximize a news organization’s social capital and marketability, its journalism today must be transparent, authentic and collaborative.’
There’s the philosophical riddle about the tree falling in a forest when no one is around. Does it make a sound? Now try this twist: If a journalist has a story, but there is no market for the news, is it worth doing?
The business model for journalism is crumbling. So an informed discussion of journalism today must include an awareness of new business models and marketability.
Can marketing save journalism? It’s a heretical question for some to consider, I’m sure, since journalists have long valued their practice as more “pure” than marketing and public relations. But these seemingly disparate forms of communication are melding together, and journalism can benefit from integrating new marketing strategies and tactics.
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100689
OI ΕΙΔΗΣΕΙΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΣΥΖΗΤΗΣΗ
A few years later, the concept that “news is a conversation” invaded mainstream journalism and is now universally embraced, at least in concept. So it stands to reason that if both markets and news are conversations, the practice of journalism today requires an awareness and capacity for the marketability of that journalism.
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100689
OI ΕΙΔΗΣΕΙΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΣΥΖΗΤΗΣΗ
A few years later, the concept that “news is a conversation” invaded mainstream journalism and is now universally embraced, at least in concept. So it stands to reason that if both markets and news are conversations, the practice of journalism today requires an awareness and capacity for the marketability of that journalism.
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100689
ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ ΣΕ SOCIAL MEDIA
Blogging etiquette gets personal
Debate is raging about whether to apply professional codes of conduct to non-work blogs
A discussion that began on a journalist's personal blog has sparked a wider debate on ethics in the age of social media as the lines between journalists' professional work and their personal activities blur. It began when Adam Tinworth, the head of bloggingdevelopment for Reed Business International, criticised the National Union of Journalists on his blog for still not "getting" social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and for responding defensively to calls to include social media in their training.
Πέμπτη 5 Μαρτίου 2009
FOLKSONOMY vs PRO METADATA Shirky
Shirky: Pro metadata will lose to folksonomy
Clay Shirky continues to just totally nail the questions of metadata, authority, and user-created content.
Today's installment: why crappy, cheap, user-generated, uncontrolled metadata will win out over expensive, controlled, useful, professionally generated metadata:
Furthermore, users pollute controlled vocabularies, either because they misapply the words, or stretch them to uses the designers never imagined, or because the designers say "Oh, let's throw in an 'Other' category, as a fail-safe" which then balloons so far out of control that most of what gets filed gets filed in the junk drawer. Usenet blew up in exactly this fashion, where the 7 top-level controlled categories were extended to include an 8th, the 'alt.' hierarchy, which exploded and came to dwarf the entire, sanctioned corpus of groups.LinkThe cost of finding your way through 60K photos tagged 'summer', when you can use other latent characteristics like 'who posted it?' and 'when did they post it?', is nothing compared to the cost of trying to design a controlled vocabulary and then force users to apply it evenly and universally.
This is something the 'well-designed metadata' crowd has never understood -- just because it's better to have well-designed metadata along one axis does not mean that it is better along all axes, and the axis of cost, in particular, will trump any other advantage as it grows larger.
And the cost of tagging large systems rigorously is crippling, so fantasies of using controlled metadata in environments like Flickr are really fantasies of users suddenly deciding to become disciples of information architecture.
ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ
Participatory journalism.
This paper describes the origins and evolution towards one-to-many and many-to-many online
participatory journalism, by focusing on the evolution of web logs and the largest
project to date - Wikipedia.
ΝΕΟ "ΠΑΡΑΔΕΙΓΜΑ" ΔΗΜΟΣΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ
The new news ecology is authentic, collaborative and transparent. Technology enables it, but should almost be taken for granted. Anything is possible, so the tool or the platform doesn’t matter. The question, the challenge, is what do you want to do? Engage, inform, collaborate and navigate: These are what guide my decisions today, whether I’m improving Newsgarden, brainstorming new products for Serra Media, or speaking, writing and training on the topic of journalism innovation.
Sustainability and marketability also factor into the equation. But the question is not about new business models, it’s about how to cultivate an audience and connect that audience with the right information. If you can do that, the business will take care of itself as many independent journalism start-ups are proving today.
Many people, including Lisa Williams yesterday, have suggested that journalism will survive its institutions. That should be the focus for journalists today. How do you bring to bear your skills, values and expertise on this new information ecosystem? It’s not a question of “how do you save your newspaper?” That can’t be solved by a focus group or panel discussion, not can it be solved by a beat reporter who’s still lucky to have a job. But a piece of it can be solved if that reporter or his or her editor focus on a form of journalism that is entrepreneurial. It will lead to better information experience for a larger audience. And if it doesn’t help save the institution, at least it will position the journalist to continue the important work beyond the life of that institution.
http://www.journalism20.com/blog/
ΟΝΟΜΑ ΝΕΑΣ ΜΟΡΦΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ
What do we call this new form of journalism and media?
With so many digital news, information and community sites popping up all over the place, using blogs, Twitter, CoverItLive, podcasts, video, social media, mapping mash-ups, searchable databases and other shiny new objects, it seems prime time to introduce a new name for all this hubbub.
The news industry calls it “new media” or “interactive media,” but that’s just differentiating it from legacy forms of publishing. Pretty much everything online is “interactive” and it’s not really “new” anymore.
“Online media?” Digital publishing?” Yawn.
Honestly, this has been bugging me for weeks. (I know, therapy is an option.) I’ve invited people in the Tacoma area where I live to gather at a local watering hole next week. I struggled with how to classify the meet-up. I resorted to “Tacoma bloggers and online media meet-up” but hope that independent bloggers, professional journalists and other walks of life are represented.
It’s media, but not necessarily journalism. As Clay Shirky deftly dissected in his book Here Comes Everybody, journalism is a profession, and to label something a profession means to “define the way in which it is more than just a job.” But often this new activity is only indirectly related to one’s job.
It will take a mix of all these tools, plus some that are just now being invented, to build successful new business models for the sustainable publishing of news/information/community in the future. What will we call that business, that industry, that specialty?
Check out Frank McGuire’s course at ASU (which looks fascinating, by the way). It’s called “The Business and Future of Journalism.” We know that future will be built digitally, but not entirely by journalists (since collaboration and social tools are so critical). So we can’t exactly call it “journalism.”
But what do we call it?
If you have any other ideas for a killer new name for all this, post a comment. Or steer me another direction of you think I’ve strayed off course.
http://www.journalism20.com/blog/
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